April 27, 2013May 18, 2013General Words Matter: Alcohol and Drugs I’ve always been a little uncomfortable when I hear the phrase “alcohol and drugs”. I’ve been around treatment long enough to know that alcohol is […] Share this:PrintEmailShare on TumblrTweetMoreLike this:Like Loading...
April 20, 2013June 6, 2013General Counselor, heal thyself: Relationships and beyond With ongoing changes to the healthcare system, counseling is likely to continue a shift toward evidence based, manualized approaches. However, good counseling […] Share this:PrintEmailShare on TumblrTweetMoreLike this:Like Loading...
April 7, 2013December 5, 2013General, Philosophy Rethinking Addiction and the Affordable Care Act I heard some pretty interesting statistics last week about healthcare costs in the United States. One of the most interesting was that […] Share this:PrintEmailShare on TumblrTweetMoreLike this:Like Loading...
March 31, 2013June 9, 2013General Counselor, heal thyself: Hierarchy of needs [GFDL or CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons Research has shown the therapeutic relationship may be one of the most important factors in […] Share this:PrintEmailShare on TumblrTweetMoreLike this:Like Loading...
March 25, 2013April 2, 2014General Counselor, heal thyself: How to become an effective counselor What does it take to be an effective counselor? With all the talk about evidence based practice and manualized treatments, one would […] Share this:PrintEmailShare on TumblrTweetMoreLike this:Like Loading...
March 13, 2013December 5, 2013General, Veteran Cognitive Processing Therapy Working in the substance abuse field, one comes to understand that trauma is a common factor for many clients. It doesn’t always […] Share this:PrintEmailShare on TumblrTweetMoreLike this:Like Loading...
March 10, 2013August 1, 2013General, Philosophy The Law of Attraction and The War on Drugs Without delving too far into the metaphysical abyss, let’s apply the concepts of “The Law of Attraction” to the efforts against substance […] Share this:PrintEmailShare on TumblrTweetMoreLike this:Like Loading...